The Atomic Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a new website on the Manhattan Project in Manhattan. Come take a tour of Oppenheimer’s childhood home, Pupin Hall at Columbia, home of the cyclotron that produced the first fission in the United States, the headquarters of Union Carbide & Carbon corporation and much more. The website has been developed by the Carnegie Corporation based on the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s “Guide to the Manhattan Project in Manhattan,” part of AHF’s Manhattan Project guidebook series.
Earlier this year, AHF received a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to conduct more interviews of Manhattan Project workers who had served on the project in Manhattan and to educate the public about the Manhattan Project in Manhattan.The Carnegie staff has created a HistoryPin website based on the “Guide to the Manhattan Project in Manhattan.”
Visitors can learn where Enrico Fermi, Harold Urey, John Dunning and their colleagues at Columbia University worked on the science and technology behind the gaseous diffusion (“K-25”) plant at Oak Ridge. Visit the Woolworth Building where the Kellex Corporation had its Headquarters and physicist Klaus Fuchs began his espionage work for the Soviet Union.
The site promises to be a terrific online resource for students and the public to learn more about the top-secret history of the Manhattan Project and its many brilliant and colorful characters.